Cooling Performance vs Acoustics: What's More Important?

[neogunhero]

When it comes to your gaming rig, what is more important to you, cooling performance or acoustics?

Personally, I have never been bothered by my PC being noisy unless if it starts to sound like a jet engine firing up. I tend to push my fans harder and faster than normal, all fans in my rig hit 100% when temps get around 65c. I typically have headphones on, so I never hear my PC, but if I do have them off, there is usually a fan or AC running in my home that drowns out the noise coming from my PC.

 

[Lutfij]

Both.

 

[neogunhero]

Both.

I guess you could technically achieve both, but if you had to prioritize one over the other, loud fans with good cooling performance or quieter fans with lesser cooling performance, which would you choose?

 

[Zed Clampet]

I guess you could technically achieve both, but if you had to prioritize one over the other, loud fans with good cooling performance or quieter fans with lesser cooling performance, which would you choose?

I take it you mean that the quieter fans won't sufficiently cool the PC in all situations, in which case I'm definitely taking the louder fans.

 

[Charagma]

Acoustics definitely.

I need silence in my work area. Any fan noise will disruptive. Can test my problem if you want. Put a song on your phone with the volume about halfway. Now start up the hairdryer and try to hear your music.

 

[Pifanjr]

When I got our new, second-hand PC the previous owner said he optimised it to run silently. Which it indeed did very well, but I undid all of his work anyway because I care more about performance than I do about a slightly noisy fan. I'm pretty sure they're still less noisy than the spinning HDDs used to be..

 

[Charagma]

When I got our new, second-hand PC the previous owner said he optimised it to run silently. Which it indeed did very well, but I undid all of his work anyway because I care more about performance than I do about a slightly noisy fan. I'm pretty sure they're still less noisy than the spinning HDDs used to be..

Do not bash the old HDD's . Sometimes it was our only sign that the thing is still working or doing something.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Do not bash the old HDD's . Sometimes it was our only sign that the thing is still working or doing something.

I could write a little program that plays a Milli Vanilli song every time your CPU hits 30 percent usage!

 

[Charagma]

I could write a little program that plays a Milli Vanilli song every time your CPU hits 30 percent usage!

LMAO, yeah can actually hear that in my head. "Blame it on the rain"? Worst ever was when your HDD started sounding like a Stiffy drive reading. Think that is why we never worried about Fan noise. Everything else was louder than the fans anyway.